Cutting lavender: No more in autumn, otherwise it will suffer
Created: 09/29/2022, 19:30
By: Ines Alms
Can or should you still cut lavender in autumn?
Does at least a short cut make sense?
Larger interventions are better done in the spring.
Whether in the bed or on the balcony - if you treat your lavender well, you will usually be rewarded with strong, even growth and rich flowering.
A lot can be achieved with a seasonal pruning, but with a few exceptions, autumn is not a good time for it.
Cutting lavender: No more in autumn, otherwise it will suffer
The cutting time of the lavender also depends on the temperatures.
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Around July, the lavender is cut back after the first bloom in order to achieve a second pile with this summer cut.
Anyone who has failed to cut back the lavender after flowering by August should better leave it alone in the fall.
Because if it gets too cold outside - perhaps surprisingly - you risk the lack of frost protection for the actually hardy plant.
If you live in regions of Germany with a reliably mild climate, lavender gardener Hans Müller on the blog
Berlingarten.de thinks
it is possible to cut the lavender until the end of September.
To do this, cut the plant in half with garden shears or hedge shears.
But you always have to be careful not to cut into the old, bare wood.
The shoots must still have leaves.
If you are unsure about the night-time temperatures, you should avoid pruning late, because, as the
lavender.net
portal explains, pruning in autumn can lead to the interfaces drying out or these shoots to freeze to death in the event of frost.
In addition, at lower temperatures the plant is more susceptible to pests that can penetrate through the interfaces.
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In autumn you can remove wilted flowers, on the other hand, a somewhat untidy garden is helpful for animals.
Around the end of March or beginning of April, when most of the frosts are over, the so-called winter pruning should take place with the lavender.
